The huge reason I'm not using Clojure for webdev is because there is rarely an accurate, current guide that demonstrates how to plug things together to get a typical CRUD+user auth website going.
I know that everything I need already exists, but I have yet to find a complete tutorial (Rails Depot, for example) that actually works. There's always some gap that isn't explained or some step that fails because the guide is 2+ years old.
So while I do agree that choosing your own libraries (and essentially building your own custom framework, because that's what they all end up as) is preferable long term, it is incredibly frustrating trying to build that first webapp.
I know that everything I need already exists, but I have yet to find a complete tutorial (Rails Depot, for example) that actually works. There's always some gap that isn't explained or some step that fails because the guide is 2+ years old.
So while I do agree that choosing your own libraries (and essentially building your own custom framework, because that's what they all end up as) is preferable long term, it is incredibly frustrating trying to build that first webapp.